Are we ready yet to say that recreational use of psychedelics is unhealthy?

In the last couple years, it feels like there's been a massive amount of cheating and dishonesty in how information regarding psychedelics has been presented to the public, diminishing and misrepresenting the negative effects of psychedelics and their dangers.<br><br>You shouldn't need to say that recreational use of psychedelics can be bad for you. It's common sense. A powerful substance that makes people see and experience things that aren't there, distorts their sense of reality, drastically changes their perception, and causes them to think differently - of course it's unhealthy to use and abuse this substance recreationally. It's also common sense that psychedelics would naturally be abused, when their effects and potency and how easy it is now to get ahold of them are being vastly downplayed and minimized.<br><br>The kind of people who are using psychedelics recreationally are also mostly not using them correctly or in a controlled environment, and usually they abuse drugs. In the real world, outside of a laboratory, psychedelics are abused, and they are not a medicine or being used like one. They are treated as a street drug and are used like one.<br><br>And yet against logical reasoning, people are still claiming that recreational psychedelic use is fine, even healthy. People who use them regularly are claiming they feel fine, it doesn't matter that they are high all the time, and that it's completely healthy to do so. They also usually claim to have done lots of research and be educated on the topic, even though they are usually just regurgitating what they read from an article headlines.<br><br>Too often we hear that psychedelics are not addictive, when in reality they very much are. Too often we hear how safe they are to take and use and how there are no risks, when in reality they are not safe at all and there are tons of risks. This is nothing short of irresponsible behavior, and it's gonna catch up to us. We already see it catching up. We can already see the negative consequences of this behavior.<br><br>You do not have to read very far into the research before it becomes very obvious that psychedelics are not some magical healing wonder drug and are in fact quite dangerous. Why are we still pretending otherwise? Why are we still saying that recreational psychedelics use is safe when we know it's not?